Chocolate Peanut Butter Spider Cookies

Chocolate Peanut Butter Spider Cookies that are creepy and delightful. These spider cookies are my first Halloween offering this year, so I wanted to make sure to give you a recipe that was frightfully delicious!

Eeeeeeeeeeek!

That’s what some of you may be thinking at first glance, but don’t worry. These spiders are more afraid of you than you are of them.

Especially after you find out they’re made of chewy peanut butter cookie dough and chocolate truffles. These Chocolate Peanut Butter Spider Cookies should make a break for it, because once you get your hands on one, the rest are in trouble.

Today I’m offering a twist on one of my favorite cookie combos, chocolate peanut butter cookies, in a way that will fill your heart with fright.

But these Chocolate Peanut Butter Spider Cookies are kind of cute, aren’t they?

I don’t know whether to hug them, squash them… or eat them.

I think I’ll go with option three.

The center of each Chocolate Peanut Butter Spider Cookies is a Lindt (Lindor) chocolate truffle. I love the soft creamy centers, however you can use whatever store-bought chocolate truffle candy you like best. Just make sure they measure about an inch across.

I made a simple peanut butter cookie dough and rolled it into balls. Then I baked the balls for 10 minutes, until they formed domes, and quickly pressed a cavity in each cooking before baking the rest of the way. This creates a unique roundy-crackly shape that’s perfect for Halloween.

Once the cookies have baked and almost cooled all the way, add a truffle to each cavity. Make sure the cookies are just barely above room temperature so the chocolate coating melts just enough to glue to the cookie. You don’t want it the melt all the way.

Then pipe chocolate legs on the Chocolate Peanut Butter Spider Cookies to make them look like spiders. Now all they need are eyes.

If we were being exact, we’d add eight eyes… but I think they look better with two.

These cute Chocolate Peanut Butter Spider Cookies are fun and festive for Halloween. Plus they are so easy the kids can make them!

I am definitely a cookie baker and was delighted to see these! I think they will be perfect for my third grade class! Where, exactly, do you find the candy eyes? Many thanks for this adorable addition to my cookie arsenal!

I have to agree with the poster who suggested waiting until these are completely cool then just gluing the truffles in with melted chocolate. I waited until mine were barely warm, then I put just one truffle in for a test. After a couple of minutes it was fine, so I added the rest. Within 20 minutes, they were all a melted mess. It was the prolonged exposure to just mild head that ruined them. Next time I’ll wait until the cookies are fully cool before adding the truffles.

I made these for a silly secret game at work “Spooked” and they turned out great! I admit, i didn’t have time to do it from scratch but I used a Betty Crocker mix. The first batch I baked for a total of 15mins and they came out crunchy. I checked the bag and it said to do it for a total of 11 and with the second batch I did that & it turned out great! I did wait for the cookies to fully cool before putting in the truffles and used the melted chocolate to “glue” them down. When I finished, I let them sit out for the night to fully set and packed them in the morning. They made it through a 30min car ride without any eyes falling off, yay!

My biggest disappointment? The Lindt bag only had 22 truffles!!! I improvised and used left over melted chocolate to make 2 “squished” spider (still so cute with the eyes though).

Yeah, I just used the pre-made dough. I had to adjust for time too, I cooked for about 6-7 minutes before pulling them out. And I didn’t have a pestle to make the dents, but the top of a can of whip cream worked just fine. :) Love the squished spider idea!

Your cookies are adorable. I’m going to make them today and bring them to the annual family crab dinner tonight – I’m just going to try to convert the measures to the Swedish and European system first, I hope I’ll get it right :)

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